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Example sentences for "curacy"

Lexicographically close words:
curability; curable; curaca; curacas; curacies; curae; curage; curam; curare; curas
  1. Boerhaave), leaving his Curacy to the charge of some of the neighbouring Clergy.

  2. The first vacant living in Derbyshire which offered itself was the Perpetual Curacy of Brampton, near Chesterfield; a situation peculiarly eligible in many respects.

  3. In the year 1765 he was presented to the Perpetual Curacy of Wingerworth, about six miles from.

  4. He had been nominated to the Perpetual Curacy of Brampton by Dr.

  5. A better curacy was offered to him at Hartshead, a little village between Huddersfield and Halifax in Yorkshire.

  6. On leaving St. John's he was ordained to a curacy in Essex.

  7. The Lord of the estate on which the chapel of the curacy was situated saw this pretend sister, and became enamoured of her--amorous to such a degree that he proposed to marry her.

  8. Oh, I inquired after him for the purpose of hanging him likewise; but he was beforehand with me, he had quit the curacy the night before.

  9. After studying at the university of Glasgow and at Balliol College, Oxford, he took orders in the Church of England, and was appointed in 1778 to the curacy of Brancepeth, near Durham.

  10. They are annexed to the curacy of San Lorenzo, two leagues off.

  11. Cinaqua, in the curacy of Tauricato, Mexico; embracing 9 Indian families.

  12. Heroine to be the daughter of a clergyman, who after having lived much in the world had retired from it, and settled on a curacy with a very small fortune of his own.

  13. They escaped from the place, and Mr. Redhead, completely vanquished, retired from the curacy of Haworth.

  14. For a few weeks he goes to the South of England--afterwards he takes a curacy somewhere in Yorkshire, but I don't know where.

  15. Mr. Nicholls resigned the curacy he had held so many years, and prepared to leave Haworth.

  16. Mr. Nicholls in the course of a few months will return to the curacy of Haworth.

  17. He had not long been settled in the curacy before an intimate acquaintance grew between him and my aunt; for she was a great admirer of the clergy, and used frequently to say they were the only conversible creatures in the country.

  18. He was in orders; and having a curacy in the neighbourhood, where residence was not required, lived at his father's house, only two miles from Uppercross.

  19. He had the curacy of Monkford, you know, Sir Walter, some time back, for two or three years.

  20. The story of Mr. Nicholls's curacy belongs to another chapter.

  21. In any case, Mr. Bronte left Weatherfield in 1809 for a curacy at Dewsbury, and Dewsbury gossip also had much to say concerning the flirtations of its Irish curate.

  22. Mr. Nicholls, in the course of a few months, will return to the curacy of Haworth.

  23. For a few weeks he goes to the south of England, afterwards he takes a curacy somewhere in Yorkshire, but I don't know where.

  24. He subsequently became curate of Littlebury, and in 1814 of Chesterford; this latter curacy he held until Dr.

  25. One toils away for four or five years, and then one gets a curacy of seventy pounds a-year, and no end of work to do for the money.

  26. And in the mean time you should live here, if your curacy was any way near.

  27. This was exchanged in the following year for the curacy of the neighbouring village of Westwell.

  28. He was admitted to holy orders, and in 1813, in his twenty-fifth year obtained a curacy at Ashford.

  29. Bailey had by this time taken orders, and after publishing a friendly notice of Endymion in the Oxford Herald for June, had left the University and gone to settle in a curacy in Cumberland.

  30. You are greatly mistaken, he has been in excellent society, and is going at once to a London living--curacy I mean, but it is all the same.

  31. Only what you think of this London curacy that my aunt has been so kind as to write about.

  32. A curacy in England I am resolved to get, away from all temptation.

  33. I would not even be able to remain there but a short time, and was only waiting my assignment to the curacy which I must thereafter occupy.

  34. I had few ties beyond my native village; the income arising from my curacy was too small to make it any great obstacle: like Goldsmith's curate, I was.

  35. My farm is increasing, and besides the salary arising from my curacy I have something additional for the school, which is paid by Government.

  36. Mr. Legge adds the following stories: My first curacy was in Norfolk in the year 1858, a period when the old style of parish clerk had not disappeared.

  37. When Mr. Stracey Clitherow went to his first curacy at Skeyton, Norfolk, in 1845, he found the clerk sweeping the whole chancel clear of snow which had fallen through the roof.

  38. He likewise offered the curacy to Mr. Halward, who previously he had but “lightly esteemed,” but that gentleman had then accepted some preferment which prevented him from acceding to the offer.

  39. People then had small expectations of clerical care, if a parish could be entrusted to a young deacon, non-resident, acting as tutor and examiner, and with an assistant curacy besides!

  40. Daniel Wilson was ordained to the curacy of Chobham, under Mr. Cecil, an excellent master for impressing hard study on his curates.

  41. But Keble went back to his curacy at Hursley.

  42. Conscious that they had forced the priest into the commission of a clerical offense, the brothers sincerely believed that the loss of his curacy would be the heaviest penalty which the law could exact from him.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curacy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.